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Power and Professionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Alan Sked
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in International History at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

Extract

Professor heindl is to be thanked for providing us with an excellent overview of the history of the imperial civil service during the last century and a half of the Habsburgmonarchy. She must also be thanked for providing us with an interesting historiographyof both the Austrian and Prussian bureaucracies, although, she has to confess, at least in theAustrian case, there remains an almost endless list of unanswered questions about these people,ranging from their social and economic background, to the nature and extent of their cooperationon different levels, to their political biases and national leanings, not to mention, of course, their treatment of ordinary citizens.

Type
Forum: The Sinews of State Building
Copyright
Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2006

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28 Ibid., 2:82–83.

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32 Ibid., 2:82.

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